Lesson 9—The Most Dangerous Game BTLEW Lesson Nine The Most Dangerous Game.

Lesson 9—The Most Dangerous Game

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Lesson Nine

The Most Dangerous Game


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1. The cotton fields to the north of the road were an ________ of shimmering white. (expand)

2. He committed suicide during temporary ______. (insane)

3. His bookshop acted as a __________ for his illegal activities. (conceal)

4. His failure made a _______ of the teacher’s great efforts to help him. (mock)

5. The police invaded the dorms and ______ the students there. (savage)

expanse

insanity

concealment

mockery

savaged

Fill out the blanks with the proper form of the given words.


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Lesson 9 - The Most Dangerous Game

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Rainsford sprang up and moved quickly to the rail, _________. He strained his eyes in the direction from which the _________ had come, but it was like trying to see through a blanket. He leaped upon the rail and balanced himself there, to get greater _________; his pipe, striking a rope, was knocked from his mouth. He lunged for it; a short, _________ cry came from his lips as he realized he had reached too far and had lost his balance. The cry was pinched off short as the blood-warm waters of the Caribbean Sea closed over his head.

Fill out the blanks.

keys

mystifiedreports

elevation

hoarse


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He struggled up to the surface and tried to cry out, but the wash from the speeding yacht _________ him in the face and the salt water in his open mouth made him gag and _________. Desperately he struck out with strong strokes after the _________ lights of the yacht, but he stopped before he had swum fifty feet. A certain coolheadedness had come to him; it was not the first time he had been in a _________ place. There was a chance that his cries could be heard by someone aboard the yacht, but that chance was slender and grew more slender as the yacht raced on. He _________ himself out of his clothes


keys

slappedstrangle

receding

tight

wrestled


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and shouted with all his power. The lights of the yacht became faint and ever-vanishing fireflies; then they were _________ out entirely by the night.


keys

blotted


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"OFF THERE to the right—somewhere—is a large island," said Whitney." It's rather a mystery—""What island is it?" Rainsford asked."The old charts call it `Ship-Trap Island,"' Whitney replied." A suggestive name, isn't it? Sailors have a curious dread of the place. I don'tknow why. Some superstition—""Can't see it," remarked Rainsford, trying to peer through the dank tropical night that was palpable as it pressed its thick warm blacknessin upon the yacht... (Go on reading the rest)

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I. Author

II. Introduction to the Story

III. The Fox and the Cat

IV. Madame Butterfly


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Richard Connell (1893—1929 )

Born on October 17,1893, in a New York state community near the Hudson River, not far from Theodore Roosevelt's homestead. Richard Connell started his writing career early, working as a reporter for the Poughkeepsie News-Press while still in high school. He spent a year at Georgetown College

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(now University) in Washington, D.C. while working as a secretary for his father, who was a member of Congress. When his father died in 1912, Connell moved back East to attend Harvard University. There he exercised his interest in writing by serving as an editor for both the Daily Crimson and the Lampoon, a precursor to

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the popular National Lampoon satire magazine. Around this time he also worked as a reporter for the New York American newspaper and served in World War I. Later, he became a free-lance writer of short stories and screen plays. He was a very prolific writer. Connell was claimed to have written

over 300 short stories.

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NOVELSMad Lover, (1927)Murder at Sea (1929)Playboy (1936)What Ho! (1937)

SHORT STORY COLLECTIONSThe Sin of Monsieur Pettipon and Other Tales (1922)Apes and Angels (1924)Variety (1925)Ironies (1930)

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First published in 1924, the story has been frequently anthologized as a classic example of a suspenseful narrative loaded with action. Connell's story raises questions about the nature of violence and cruelty and the ethics of hunting for sport."The Most Dangerous Game" gained favorable recognition upon its initial publication in 1924, winning the prestigious O. Henry Memorial Award for Short Fiction. Its popularity was further established when the first film version ofthe story was produced in 1932.

II.II. Introduction to Introduction to the Storythe Story


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Two sailors Rainsford and his partner Whitney sailed into the darkness of the of sea. They were hunters and headed to the Amazon to hunt vicious animals such as Jaguars. They sailed to an island called Ship-Trap Island. Sailors felt this island frightening. The sky was dark and everything was shrouded in darkness when suddenly he heard three gunshots. Then he heard a scream while smoking a pipe. Suddenly the pipe fell and as he tried to reach out for



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it he fell off the board into the sea and the waves swallowed his screams. Nobody could hear his cry for help. His only chance of survival was to swim. Rainsford swam towards the screams and found himself on the Island. He walked along the shoreline and later found a place that looked like a mansion. There he met General Zaroff who bought the island to hunt. He was indeed a sportsman who invented a new hunting



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game. His game was to train those men whose ships were wrecked, and provide them with food and a knife for three days. Once they were trained they were led out into the island while Zaroff chased after them and tried to hunt them. If they survived during those three days they had won the game and they were let free but otherwise they would be killed. Zaroff never lost thegame because if one of the men being



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hunted was about to survive he would release the hounds to chase after them. Rainsford was invited to play the game with Zaroff. This time he became the hunted instead of the hunter…



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III.III. The Fox and the The Fox and the CatCat

There are two versions for the fable. One is Aesop’s version, and the other is Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s version.

Aesop’s VersionA fox was boasting to a cat of its clever devices for escaping its enemies. "I have a whole bag of tricks," he said, "which contains a hundred ways of escaping my enemies." "I have only one," said the cat. "But I can


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generally manage with that." Just at that moment they heard the cry of a pack of hounds coming towards them, and the cat immediately scampered up a tree and hid herself in the boughs. "This is my plan," said the cat. "What are you going to do?" The fox thought first of one way, then of another, and while he was debating, the hounds came nearer and nearer, and at last the fox in his confusion was caught up


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by the hounds and soon killed by the huntsmen.Miss Puss, who had been looking on, said, "Better one safe way than a hundred on which you cannot reckon."

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s VersionIt happened that the cat met Mr. Fox in the woods. She thought, "He is intelligent and well experienced, and is highly regarded in the world," so she spoke to him in a friendly


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manner, "Good-day, my dear Mr. Fox. How is it going? How are you? How are you getting by in these hard times?" The fox, filled with arrogance, examined the cat from head to feet, and for a long time did not know whether he should give an answer. At last he said, "Oh, you poor beard-licker, you speckled fool, you hungry mouse hunter, what are you thinking? Have you the nerve to ask how I am doing? What do you know? How manytricks do you understand?"


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"I understand only one," answered the cat, modestly. "What kind of a trick is it?" asked the fox. "When the dogs are chasing me, I can jump into a tree and save myself." "Is that all?" said the fox. "I am master of a hundred tricks, and in addition to that I have a sackful of cunning. I feel sorry for you. Come with me, and I will teach youhow one escapes from the dogs." Just then a hunter came by with four dogs.


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The cat jumped nimbly up a tree, and sat down at its top, where the branches andfoliage completely hid her. "Untie your sack, Mr. Fox, untie your sack," the cat shouted to him, but the dogs had already seized him, and wereholding him fast. "Oh, Mr. Fox," shouted the cat. "You and your hundred tricks are left in the lurch. If you had been able to climb like I can,you would not have lost your life."


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IV. Madame ButterflyIV. Madame Butterfly

Nagasaki, Japan, the end of the Nineteenth Century. Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton (Richard Troxell), a young American lieutenant, buys a home and a geisha-wife (Butterfly), 15 years old. Sharpless (Richard Cowan), the U.S. consul, warns him that what for him is an exotic, passing fling, for Butterfly has serious consequences, having broken her ties with her family, culture and religion. Pinkertongoes back to his ship and his commission,


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IV. Madame ButterflyIV. Madame Butterfly

to return three years later with an American wife. Butterfly, who has borne him a son and has rejected an offer of marriage from a rich nobleman, feels obliged to sacrifice her life in order to safeguard her honor.


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Please listen to Madame Butterfly.

II.II. Madame ButterflyMadame Butterfly


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Rainsford, a noted hunter, falls off a ship and swims to an island. He finds there the evil General Zaroff who, with the help of his assistant, hunts humans for sport. After three days of fighting for his life in the jungle while Zaroff hunts him, Rainsford surprises Zaroff and kills him.

Theme of the Text


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Part 1 (Paras. 1— )

Part 2 (Paras.15— )

Part 2 ( Para. )

Structure of the Text

14Zaroff invited Rainsford to play the game and Rainsford was forced to accept the proposal.

45 The game began and Rainsford tried his best to survive.

The game ended in the winning of Rainsford. And Rainsford proved to be the most dangerous game. 46


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Writing Writing

Oxymoron

He was deliciously tired. (Para. 39)a compressed paradox, formed by the conjoining of two contrasting, contradictory or incongruous termsHere “deliciously” and “tired” are two

contradictory ideas. The author uses the two together in order to convey the idea that although the General is very tired, he has enjoyed himself in playing the game with Rainsford and his illness “boredom” has been driven away.


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WritingWriting

Oxymoron

There are mainly five ways to form an oxymoron.

1. Adj. + N. e.g. cruel kindness, a living death2. Adj. + Adj. e.g. sour-sweet memories, cold pleasant

manner, the poor magnificent bungler

3. Adv. + Adj. e.g. falsely true, mercifully fatal


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WritingWriting

Oxymoron

There are mainly five ways to form an oxymoron.

4. V. + Adv. e.g. shine darkly, hasten slowly

5. N. + N. e.g. a love-hate relationship, the sound

of silence


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exceedexceed

root ceed: from Latin, meaning “go;move; yield”

exceedproceedsucceed

超越进行成功


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suicidesuicide

root

cide: from Latin, meaning “to kill; to cut down”

biocidegenocidegermicideherbicidehomicideinfanticideinsecticidematricidepatricidepesticidesuicide

生物杀灭剂有计划的灭种和屠杀杀菌剂除草剂杀人杀婴杀虫剂弑母杀父杀虫剂自杀


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sapling sapling

suffix

-ling: from Old English

1. to form a noun that indicates a feeling of distaste or disgust for the person or thing named

e.g. hireling, underling

2. to form a noun that is the smaller version or example of the base word

e.g. duckling, foundling, princeling, sapling, seedling, weakling


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woodcraftwoodcraft

combination form

craft: meaning “work; art; practice of”

aircrafthandicrafthovercraftstatecraftwitchcraftwoodcraft

航行器手工艺品气垫船管理国家的本领魔法；魔力木工术

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